I recently switched to the Sony-Ericsson T610 phone from T-Mobile. It’s a great phone, it lets my Palm handheld get online via Bluetooth, and you can’t beat the price. However, there is one thing that annoyed me terribly. While the phone comes with about ten choices of ringtones, only one of them sounds like a ringing phone. You have a choice of a number of electronic tunes that sound like video game noises, or cheesy musical selections that sound like MIDI demos circa 1980.

Fortunately, T-Mobile has around 1000 ringtones available for purchase and download. They have extra-cheesy MIDI versions of all the latest pop hits and an astounding collection of classics ranging from Bohemian Rhapsody to Theme from Knight Rider. Unfortunately, not a single one of them sounds like a ringing phone.

Since my wife has the same phone, we really wanted two different ring sounds. Fortunately, after an extensive Google search, I found this page at my610 with four nice professional ringtones. Since it was hard to find that page amongst all of the cellphone and ringtone dealers, I loaded the title of this post with keywords. Maybe it will help someone else restore sanity to their T610. Presumably these will work on some other phones as well.

That seems to be the way with most phones these days and it’s getting really irritating. My oldish Nokia comes with two or three normal rings amongst about thirty silly tunes. Even my home phone has one or two semi-normal rings amongst twenty odd silly tunes. Maybe there’s hope for the future with polyphonic ringtones: we should be able to find an old phone which still rings, and just sample it!

I couldn’t agree more. I received a new Nokia recently and the only normalish choice I had
was a beep sound that I could barely hear. My partner’s Nokia doesn’t have anything close
to a plain phone ring so she just uses the Nokia Theme tune which we both find aggravating
(not to mention tacky). I’ve almost resorted to recording my old phone ring but I think
these should work ok. I bet if someone put together a package of professional sounding
ringtones it would sell like hotcakes. Thanks for the post!

Thank you! I finally can get my sanity back! Ugh, it is impossible to find a plain normal ringtone these days. My Nokia 6610i does not have a single plain and simple one on it. This is so irritating. Thanks for the link!

Hey fortunately I am not the only crazy one looking for normal ringtones… i am from Guatemala but do you know where can I find normal ringtones at least in internet?? I have a samsung telephone… Does the webpage where you find the normal ringtones is only for that phone? does somebody know?

Mate, you are a lifesaver!! At last, some normal ringtones.
When will the companies learn that many people want a phone to sound like, well, a P-H-O-N-E…! Hey let’s all pool money together, start up a normal ringtone business, retire to the Caribbean? LOL

Excellent ! Went out and got the Samsung D500..its got everything apart from a decent “old school” ringtone!! I’m no stick in the mud but sometimes you just want to hear “ring ring” not the latest tune by “The streets” when someone calls. I’ll keep checking to see if you come up with any more useful ideas

Hey, I’m a teenager! Lol, but the classic ring is what I want too. Oh, surrenderyoursushi, try http://www.zedge.no, you can upload midis to your phone at no extra charge. Not all of the midis work, but I downloaded the ones at the site he posted, and I’m about to try them.

I scoured high and low for a normal “ring ring” tone, instead of all the silly and wierd ringtone. I have tried changing my phone but couldn’t stop tearing my hair apart (what little i have!) – I am fed up with all the aggravating noise polluting ringtones (hUH!).Googling also didn’t help almost all ringtone sites are crazy – they expect me to fork out out good money for silly irritating tunes. Really! though, I will gladly pay 10 times more for a nice simple ring ring.Now i seem to have found kindred spirits. Lead Kindly Light!!

I was very happy to find this post! I am anoyed with all the rings my samsung x426 came with and im looking for some slick business style rings that aren’t going to sound like a frekin japanese arcade on crack! quite frankly they are embarassing. Thank you !

My faith is now restored in the general public. I just want a phone that sounds like a phone. Not a Rap artist or Country Singer. The more professional ring tones I can get the happier I am. Thanks to all of you.

There’s a UK ringtones website that ONLY does ringtones that sound like telephones at http://www.soundslikeaphone.com. It’s kinda hokey, but it doesn’t look like a hard-sell deal. The tones are really cool British type phones too.
Later,
Wynn

Hi there, I’m the person behind http://www.soundslikeaphone.com. It’s good that someone else noticed it so soon! I started this website precisely because I was really annoyed that I couldn’t find a decent selection of normal, business ringtones for my mobile phone. At most, there seems to be one per phone. This means that you’re stuck with the same one that most other mature adults go with (so you reach for your pocket every time another cellphone with the same “ring-ring” goes off). Because of this, we’ve got ring tones that are limited edition – 5,000 downloads worldwide, then we delete the tone.

As your forum’s so vibrant, I’d really appreciate you having a look at the site and telling me what you think.

Same problem with pocket pc´s including a cell phone. But I found a really nice package on Pocketgear.com for this. Business – Professional ringtone collection. This one is includin real ringtones. And as weel, future ringtones that will sound like ringtones. Ok, not for nothing but really nice !

Thanks! It is nearly impossible to find “normal” sounding ringtones these days. My phone (Samsung x426) has about a dozen annoying melodies and sound effects but not even a single regular ringtone! I had to buy a datacable just so I could change it! It’s pretty evil that they force consumers to use the most irritating of noises unless they “choose” to purchase ringtones from the service provider. Thanks again!

THANKS bunches! Got a Nokia 6102 and the only ring it has is the Cingular ring. I wanted something I could hear when I was in the shower! I couldn’t even find what I was looking for to PURCHSE! Again, THANKS!

Many, Many Thanks, I’ve got a nokia 6030 and there was not a single normal (i.e. telephone ringing) ringtone on there. In travel around a lot of customers offices and it was getting embarrassing with the Nokia Theme Tune. (or any of the other options on there).

Hia i too am sick of silly childish ringtones, do they not think adults may use mobiles aswell, nice wrok though you have saved me alot of time, and time is money so i supose you saved me that too… very grateful

Ever since seeing “The Exorcist” (filmed in 1972?) here at Duke one Halloween and watching the 20-somethings jump when, from a black screen, a LOUD old-school phone causes the mother to turn on the light to answer and display a rotary(!) phone up close to the camera (and then watch those same college kids scratch their heads like, “What is THAT?”),
I have been searching, to no avail, to find a minimalist retro basic ringtone like I heard growing up, from the black phone with the rotary dial that weighed a ton and would shatter if you dropped it (like unto my beige rotary land-line I got for $1 at a local thrift store!)–a counterpoint to all these nauseatingly cutsie-pie cloying dippity-dippity-doot-doot sounds going off all over the city bus when I ride it!

HELL I CANT FIND A BLOODY RING TONE THAT SOUNDS LIKE A PHONE, TELSTRA SENT ME A NEXT G PHONE THAT HAS ONLY ONE RING TONE AND IT HAPPENS TO BE THE TELSTRA THEME SONG HOW LAME IS THAT. IF I WANT TO CHANGE IT SEEMS I HAVE TO PAY FOR ONE